Posted by
Jeff Brandenburg on
Mar 17, 2006; 2:03pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/drawing-in-ImageJ-tp3703324p3703331.html
On Mar 16, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Joseph Vandergracht wrote:
> Is it reasonable to believe that there will be ways of running
> 'Classic' apps in the next year or so on
> an intel Mac?
Yes, it seems likely. There are Mac emulators that run on Linux, and
there are lots of people who want to get them running on OS X for just
this purpose. Performance may be better or worse than you're seeing
with Virtual PC on the Mac; I wouldn't know what to expect.
> Or might it be possible in the futuer to run the WIndows version of
> NIH Image on an Intel Mac? (It
> is painfully slow in emulatin on a current Mac).
Well, it's now possible to run Windows XP itself natively on an Intel
Mac:
http://www.engadget.com/2006/03/16/windows-xp-on-mac-solution-posted/However, bringing up your Mac as a Windows box probably isn't what you
wanted. (As I pointed out to someone else yesterday, you can also
unplug it and use it as a nifty doorstop, but that, too, negates many
of the advantages of the Mac.)
It stands to reason that Virtual PC could perform much better on an
Intel Mac, since you'd no longer be emulating x86 instructions on a
PowerPC, but Microsoft hasn't had much to say about making an Intel
version of VPC available.
> Any thoughts or comments are welcome.
Can you describe in any more detail what your drawing tasks are like,
and what parts of NIH Image make those tasks easier? (I'll confess
that I haven't really done any homework on this, because I've never run
NIH Image.)
--
-jeffB (Jeff Brandenburg, Duke Center for In-Vivo Microscopy)